tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post7478891256111122052..comments2016-12-08T10:47:12.147-08:00Comments on Lost Live Dead: The Grateful Dead San Quentin Performances: A TheoryCorry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-85530972054024973392015-07-23T00:12:28.484-07:002015-07-23T00:12:28.484-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Miami Party Rentalshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08112886831809390516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-31869714947224957762014-10-31T22:07:18.251-07:002014-10-31T22:07:18.251-07:00I have seen yet another photo of this show, with G...I have seen yet another photo of this show, with Garcia, Weir and Nick Gravenites. I guess Nick was playing guitar so Bob had to play bass. Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-41629398813765451652014-10-31T22:04:34.845-07:002014-10-31T22:04:34.845-07:00A photo of the San Quentin 2/15/68 gig has surface...A photo of the San Quentin 2/15/68 gig has surfaced which shows Garcia &amp; Weir - and Weir is indeed playing a bass! (It looks like a borrowed Les Paul bass, not the kind Phil played.)<br />http://scarlet-fire.tumblr.com/image/83616939562 Light Into Asheshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06943335142002007213noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-83778889334804697892012-08-05T20:34:58.151-07:002012-08-05T20:34:58.151-07:00You implicitly make the point that exactly zero re...You implicitly make the point that exactly zero research has been done on first person narratives of San Francisco in the sixties not written in English. Generally speaking, the sort of person from foreign country who might have spent some time in San Francisco in the mid-sixties have an infinitely greater likelihood of having produced some kind of memoir.Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-51423636298789184172012-08-05T08:56:38.652-07:002012-08-05T08:56:38.652-07:00There&#39;s a great memoir by a French rock journa...There&#39;s a great memoir by a French rock journalist, Alain DISTER, based on his time living in San Francisco for a few years starting in autumn 1966. His dating of the 1968 places it to earlier, in two respects. First, he says that it was the day or the day after Neal died (2/4/68). Second, consistently but seemingly independently, he notes that Phil Lesh had stayed in Oregon after the gigs up there. This would seem to put it between the end of the Quick and the Dead tour and the Carousel gig on Valentine&#39;s Day.<br /><br />But the two contemporary reports (they do indeed seem to be independent to me) tell me he must be conflating those things, which all happened within 11 days of each other.<br /><br />Oh yeah, one more tidbit, since he attended the San Quentin gig. Having perhaps been mistaken about the reasons for which Phil was absent, he says that Bob Weir played bass! Having read his book (I am about half through annotating it), I find him pretty credible, the occasional confusion notwithstanding.<br /><br />REFERENCES<br />UPI. 1968. Hippies Support Quentin Paper. Hayward Daily Review, February 16, 1968, p. unk, scan via Hannan 2009.<br />Torgerson, Dial. 1968. Strike Call Fizzles at San Quentin. Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1968, 19.<br />Dister, Alain. 2007. Grateful Dead: Une légende californienne. Paris: Le Castor Astral.<br /><br />Dister 2007, 150-151.Jerry Garcia's Middle Fingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-50238066114380940052010-11-16T01:25:17.812-08:002010-11-16T01:25:17.812-08:00Another great Communications Company handbill Jeff...Another great Communications Company handbill Jeff. It would be really great to pull together a complete list sometime. I am also comfortable with the original date I proposed in the blog for this event - and that it was tied to the execution of Aaron Mitchell. RossThe Yellow Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001772238662274893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-44172431011213750662010-11-15T19:38:12.588-08:002010-11-15T19:38:12.588-08:00Jeff, thanks for the link to the interesting alter...Jeff, thanks for the link to the interesting alternative handbill (which I assume was a Communications Company publication)Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-58475683726835266802010-11-15T17:42:51.587-08:002010-11-15T17:42:51.587-08:00I just listed a similar but different handbill for...I just listed a similar but different handbill for the same event on Ebay; the link is here. I&#39;m not trying to drum up business, just wanted to add to your excellent scholarship. <br /><br />http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&amp;item=220697674949&amp;ssPageName=ADME:L:LCA:US:1123<br /><br /> all the best, Jeff GoldJeff Goldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03689377941249643489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-18895330702131388242010-06-09T03:13:19.723-07:002010-06-09T03:13:19.723-07:00Your post states: &quot;By June of 1967 Chester An...Your post states: &quot;By June of 1967 Chester Anderson, together with his partners Claude and Helene Hayward, was being eased out of ComCo and on August 15 he was formally banned from entering the premises at all.&quot;<br /><br />Do you know what the circumstances were surrouding Chester&#39;s banishment? After all he had done for the Diggers with his Communication Company publications, it must have been something serious?Louishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06240717837823191200noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-55940925534769967552009-12-19T15:12:31.349-08:002009-12-19T15:12:31.349-08:00There&#39;s a mention of 2/15/68 in the following:...There&#39;s a mention of 2/15/68 in the following: Dial Torgerson, &quot;Hippies Parade,&quot; <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, February 16, 1968, p. 19.Jerry Garcia's Middle Fingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-6485695399636613322009-12-10T16:18:42.902-08:002009-12-10T16:18:42.902-08:00This isn&#39;t directly relevant to the issue of S...This isn&#39;t directly relevant to the issue of San Quentin nor the dates of GD performances there, but since you mention this week of April 1967 I thought I&#39;d mention that I list a GD performance in the Panhandle of Golden Gate Park on Sunday, April 9, 1967. This is based on a narrative in Charles Perry&#39;s <i>The Haight-Ashbury</i> (New York: Wenner Books, 2005), p. 171.<br /><br />I mention it here for the record and also because Perry&#39;s narrative fits well into the picture that you paint of that particular week.Jerry Garcia's Middle Fingerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05648291938690043423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-86503955765578697472009-12-04T14:39:17.462-08:002009-12-04T14:39:17.462-08:00The response I have is that it was indeed to do wi...The response I have is that it was indeed to do with Aaron Mitchell; that Country Joe and The Fish all (probably) showed up late afternoon; that members of the Dead were there - but not entirely certain who; Sandy Bull was there as was David Freiberg and possibly others from Quicksilver. It is also suggested that a couple of folk from Big Brother passed through in the couple of hours our intrepid traveller stayed there.<br /><br />I appreciate that this does not really address any of the issues and leaves even more open ends - but it is a contemporary review from a trust worthy source. RossThe Yellow Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001772238662274893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-50012254232364423352009-12-04T09:07:04.734-08:002009-12-04T09:07:04.734-08:00I agree with your comment. For April - I think &qu...I agree with your comment. For April - I think &quot;Mobius band&quot; could be either be descriptive or some vague link to something along the lines of the Jook Savages. If Country Joe &amp; The Fish played it would more than likely be all five of them - and I have the question out at present. For the Grateful Dead - there are photographs of Weir and Garcia for the February 15 bash and I did dig out the comments from the guys in Phoenix. I am hoping for an update soon.The Yellow Sharkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17001772238662274893noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5493557313410969282.post-66379971838372941752009-12-04T08:32:45.140-08:002009-12-04T08:32:45.140-08:00I find the arguments for both dates extremely conv...I find the arguments for both dates extremely convincing. The only open question is which musicians actually played.<br /><br />The wording of the April 11, 1967 says &quot;musicians from&quot; various bands will jam, so we don&#39;t know who exactly played yet. Did all these bands rehearse at Sausalito Heliport at the time. Who were the &quot;Mobius Band&quot; by the way?<br /><br />The February 16, 1968 article identifies the Grateful Dead, but I think it may not have been all of them. Don&#39;t we have an account from Jef Jaisun (Phoenix bassist)? I think it was an ongoing jam session with various players cycling in and out, and I think Jerry Garcia and Jack Casady were both there.<br /><br />I feel extremely confident that these are both Garcia dates, but it remains to be seen if they are Grateful Dead dates.Corry342http://www.blogger.com/profile/08049035074121231425noreply@blogger.com